Word: mented
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Also, New Wiring. The first thing Helmsley plans to do at Parkchester is raise rents. An apartment-building own er can seek a "hardship increase" under rent control if his income fails to amount to a 6% return on his invest ment, plus 2% for depreciation. Having agreed to pay $90 million for the property, Helmsley will be in a position to make use of the hardship proviso. "Then," he adds, "we're going to put in new wiring, which brings another increase...
...tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism of Lieut. Colonel Corson's book, The Betrayal [June 28], TIME again underscored one of the major contradictions of the American involve ment in Viet Nam: We cannot make our local allies worth defending without taking them over completely and becoming blatantly colonial, one thing is even-clearer than the improbability of the political escalation required by the Corson solution, it is the probability of continued failure of the Westmoreland tactic. Since the former...
...student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...string of hits-seven plays and two films -and it was no surprise when he was voted best director. Yet the movie he won it for-The Graduate-received not one other award. The best picture was In the Heat of the Night, whose fine if somewhat melodramatic treat ment of racial conflict seemed stirringly topical (the selection, of course, was made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
RARELY in American memory had hope and horror been so poignantly had fused men's within a actions - single voluntary week. and in Rarely voluntary - seemed so ineluctably inter twined. President Johnson's announce ment of a major peace offensive in Asia, coupled with his renunciation of another term, raised anticipation throughout the world that the long ag ony of Viet Nam might soon be ended...